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During his unusual speech about his Mormon religion today, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney failed to mention the significance of the Angel Moroni within his faith. He did mention the Christian son of God.
“I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God and the savior of mankind,” Romney said. “We should acknowledge the creator…”
According to historical and religious texts, the Angel Moroni is an angel that a man named Joseph Smith Jr. said visited him on numerous occasions, beginning on September 23, 1823. The angel, it is said, was the guardian of the golden plates, which Smith said were buried in a hill near his home in western New York, and which he said were the source material for the Book of Mormon. Others beside Smith said they saw Moroni in later visions.
Why Romney did not mention the Angel Moroni is unknown. He did say that he strongly believes in his Mormon faith, and thus his belief in the Angel Moroni must be so. Today, the Angel Moroni has become a crucial figure in the Latter Day Saint religion, and is featured prominently in Mormon architecture and art.
“Moroni is said to be the same person as a Book of Mormon prophet-warrior named Moroni, who was the last to write in the golden plates,” according to Wikipedia. “The book says that Moroni buried them before he died after a great battle between two pre-Columbian civilizations. After he died, he was resurrected, became an angel, and was tasked with guarding the golden plates, and with eventually directing Joseph Smith to their location in the 1820s. According to Latter Day Saint movement theology, Moroni still has the plates and several other Book of Mormon artifacts in his possession.”
Your belief that Mormons emphasize the Angel Moroni is misfounded. I can understand why Romney did not mention him. (It’s not significant - Did he mention John the Baptist? Both are important to the Church)
What Moroni did is important for the Mormon faith, but his teachings in the Book of Mormon are not substantially more significant than the teachings of any other prophet within the Book of Mormon. I have attended the church this whole year, and have not heard mention of Moroni for months.
He didn’t mention Moroni because it is one of the most controversial and cult-like aspects of the religion. And he knows it. And all Mormons are trying to minimize Moroni at this point.
Sally, why do Mormons put Moroni statues on the top of their temples if they’re “trying to minimize” Moroni? Your statement makes no sense.
Any what exactly makes Moroni “cult like”. Do you consider all beliefs that differ from yours “cult like” or are you selective in your bigotry?
In any case, why would Mitt want to get into issues such as a particular prophet or angel in his speech? How would that help his candidacy? Apparently you missed the point of the whole speech. Perhaps you need to listen to it again. Kennedy didn’t talk about Catholic doctrine in his famous speech, for good reason, and neither did Romney, for the same good reasons.
Catholic faith is much more like Protestant faith than Mormonism. The extra features of Mormonism, including Moroni, that happened in more recent centuries are going to work against Romney — because, indeed, they sound cult-like. In his speech, he only mentioned being a Mormon once, yet the whole speech was about religion. The only reason he was talking religion is because he is a Mormon and different than the VAST majority of Americans.
Sally, the only reason Mormon beliefs sound “cult like” is because you’re unfamiliar with them. To non-Christians the idea that God came to earth as a baby, was nailed to a tree and somehow that horrible act saves the world sounds pretty “cult like”.
When you call someone else’s beliefs “cult like” you become part of the problem.
Problem for the Mormons is that they believe the whole nailed to a tree thing, too. They just have even more wacky beliefs than the avg Christian. And the avg Christian is too stupid to understand that their extra beliefs are just as stupid as all religious beliefs.
Bigots will always be BIGOTS!
the angel is VERY important, as told to me by a Mormon trying to convert me on a plane. it’s trumpeting the last days mentioned in revelation.
as we have seen with W., when we have a president who honestly believes we are living in the last days and that the apocalypses is imminent… their judgments about world affairs and non-Christian cultures WILL be effected.
Running for the President of the US should have nothing to do with religion. All religions were created by MAN in order to control and manipulate mankind. Character, integrity, honesty & ethics are far more important than any damn religious beliefs. Religion is the opium of the sheeple. Evaluate the person on his actions that illustrate his true being and not on any so-called religion.
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Give me a break, I’m a Mormon and Moroni isn’t a crucial part of our faith. He is on the temples because he is represented as the angel in revelations who blows the trumpet to welcome the last of days. But the day you find a Mormon who says I believe in Christ just lake the angel Moroni said is the day you find a nutter. The same logic behind criticizing Catholics for not mentioning their saints when they say they believe in Christ.
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